adhesive
Adjective
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Tending to adhere (synset 300052912)
similar to:
- adherent - sticking fast
- agglutinate, agglutinative - united as if by glue
- bondable - capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass
- coherent, tenacious - sticking together
- cohesive - causing cohesion
- gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous - having the sticky properties of an adhesive
- gooey, icky - soft and sticky
- gum-like - resembling chewing gum
- gummed, gummy - covered with adhesive gum
- pitchy, resinous, resiny, tarry - having the characteristics of pitch or tar
- self-sealing - seals without the application of moisture
- stick-on - of something (a paper label or postage stamp) gummed in advance
- sticky - covered with an adhesive material
Noun
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A substance that unites or bonds surfaces together (synset 114726577)
is a type of: material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical objectsubtypes:
- birdlime, lime - a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds
- spirit gum - an adhesive solution made of gum and ether and used to attach false hair to skin
- binder - something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface
- cement - something that hardens to act as adhesive material
- library paste, paste - an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard
- rubber cement - an adhesive made by dissolving unvulcanized rubber in a solvent like benzene or naphtha
substance holonym: epoxy, epoxy glue, epoxy resin - a thermosetting resin; used chiefly in strong adhesives and coatings and laminatessame as: adhesive agent, adhesive material
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